This is the abstract section. One paragraph only Road cavities recently in urban are causing collapse of road surface layer due to loss of support bearing capacity. Detecting road cavities with ground penetrating radar(GPR) test, then excavation and backfill are performed in the anticipated cavity area. However sometimes detecting errors are occurred because of the complexity of the GPR test result analysis or interval space between larger gravels. So before unnecessary excavation, verification for detect the cavities results should be needed. The purpose of this study suggest deflection method by the light weight deflectometer(LWD) as a verification way of GPR test results and as a tracking investigation method continuously at the sites having small size cavity. LWD devices has more advantages than larger NDT because FWD has difficulties in a traffic control and entrance of narrow-back road. In this study, LWD tests were conducted on the pavement sections with and without road cavity detected by GPR tests and after excavating the area, the cavity sizes were measured. LWD test results can be applied to verify a subsurface cavity by comparing maximum deflection and deflection ratio between cavity area and non cavity area at the loading center. The higher deflection and lower modulus was measured at cavity sections. Based on the results of the comparative analysis, It is found that deflection method has a possibility of complementary for detecting road cavity. Also cavity size prediction equation was attempted to propose through deflection ratio using a database. Compared with another validation data, the proposed prediction equation is more suitable for detecting cavity existence than size estimation because the average error rate is larger. As a results of the analysis with depth ratio as a factor, it is necessary to improve the cavity size prediction through the normalization using the parameter of road properties.

PURPOSES: The purpose of this study is to evaluate different types of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) testing for characterizing the road cavity detection. The impulse and step-frequency-type GPR tests were conducted on a full-scale testbed with an artificial void installation. After analyzing the response signals of GPR tests for detecting the road cavity, the characteristics of each GPR response was evaluated for a suitable selection of GPR tests. METHODS: Two different types of GPR tests were performed to estimate the limitation and accuracy for detecting the cavities underneath the asphalt pavement. The GPR signal responses were obtained from the testbed with different cavity sizes and depths. The detection limitation was identified by a signal penetration depth at a given cavity for impulse and step-frequency-type GPR testing. The unique signal characteristics was also observed at cavity sections. RESULTS: The impulse-type GPR detected the 500-mm length of cavity at a depth of 1.0 m, and the step-frequency-type GPR detected the cavity up to 1.5 m. This indicates that the detection capacity of the step-frequency type is better than the impulse type. The step-frequency GPR testing also can reflect the howling phenomena that can more accurately determine the cavity. CONCLUSIONS : It is found from this study that the step-frequency GPR testing is more suitable for the road cavity detection of asphalt pavement. The use of step-frequency GPR testing shows a distinct image at the cavity occurrences.

In this study, it was evaluated the detection results of ground penetration radar (GPR) by using pixel difference. Experimental tank was made for this purpose. Concrete hume pipe and PE pipe were buried in the tank. The pavement finish of the surface was classified 4th cases. In the case of non-reinforcement concrete pavement, the buried pipe detection was easy than other pavement cases. And it was easy to detect the buried pipe by the difference of the color pixels rather than the black and white pixels.

본 연구에서는 토조에 설치한 관의 종류 및 매립 깊이, 공동 깊이 및 포장 조건 등에 대한 GPR(Ground Penetrating Radar) 탐사를 진 행하여 매립관의 종류 및 공동 탐사 능력을 실험적으로 규명하였다. 아스팔트 포장 및 비포장의 경우, 콘크리트 포장 및 철근 콘크리트 포장 대 비 매립관의 탐사가 용이한 것으로 평가되었다. 또한 공기 공동의 경우, 매립 깊이 1 m에서는 탐지가 가능한 것으로 평가되었다.

This study is to determine the predictability of the ground cavitation by GPR equipment. Water and sewage pipeline buried in sand and soil tanks and to prepare a specimen for exploration of water and air cavities. The sand for a dielectric constant 8, the soil using 6.5 is preferred to extract data for the asphalt pavement condition. After the GPR detections, the cavity in sand tank rather than soil tank is to obtain more precise data.